Re: zfs replication tool

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 01:24:17PM +0200, Julien Cigar wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 11:51:30PM -1000, parv/FreeBSD wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 10:58 PM David Christensen  wrote:
> > ...
> > 
> > > I wrote homebrew scripts to automate ZFS replication and I saw that
> > > error message many times in the past.  The solution was to add the '-F'
> > > option to the 'zfs receive' commands.  Is there a way to do this with
> > > zrepl?
> > >
> > 
> > That "-F" option, for "zfs-recv(8)", will remove existing file system
> > (on the receiver side). For the option to work, existing snapshots would
> > need to be destroyed first.
> > 
> > That is useful if one wants to re-set up backup file system & snapshots.
> > Else, what is even the point of incremental snapshot back ups.
> 
> it looks like there is no way to specify a -F on the receive side with
> zrepl.. my problem looks like https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl/issues/408
> issue.

setting mountpoint=none on the target dataset fixed the issue. 
Apparently mounting a dataset, even as read-only, somewhat "alters" it 
and incremental snapshot replication fails afterwards.

So I'm setting mountpoint=none and switched to clones and promotes

> 
> > 
> > 
> > - parv
> > 
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> Julien Cigar
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